Research from Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research explores the role of out-of-pocket health costs in retirement preparedness.
A study in the International Journal of Health Services finds that ER use comprises an increasing proportion of all health care use.
Research in the Journal of Health Economics continues the trend of finding little overall cost savings from medical home-type primary care.
A drug industry sponsored paper further underscores the abuses by hospitals of the 340B program.
A new analysis from Avalere finds staggering rises in the Silver, or benchmarking, level health plan premiums on the insurance exchanges.
A study in the Journal of Health Economics examines preventive care use under high-deductible plans.
Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines use of ICUs for the very elderly.
A paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research examines why clinical guidelines often seem to have little relevance or utility.
A study in Health Affairs examines characteristics of persistent high ER use patients.
We continue with our summary of the Kaiser Family Foundation survey on 2017 employer health plans.